However, we are now told that war is days, or hours, away. It is as if war were an inescapable fate, as if it were a popular demand in every part of the world rather than otherwise.
Se nos dice, sin embargo, que la guerra está a unos días o a unas horas de distancia, como si la guerra fuera una realidad ineludible, y como si fuera un reclamo popular en el mundo entero, en lugar de lo contrario.